Better digital and physical connections could unshackle UK business, economists say

Britain is haunted by past industrial decline and the buccaneering raids of the 1980s

Lex argues that GKN shareholders must accept hostile offer from Melrose

The UK needs new ideas and skills for expanding sales worldwide

Moderniser who served on front bench for 18 years championed Olympics and Sure Start

But social entrepreneurs struggle to attract sufficient funding

Sharing skills is just one way FT Future 100 UK companies help their local area

These FT Future 100 UK businesses are building sustainability into their model

An ageing population and later retirement means employers will soon have little choice

Washing machine salesman with ‘a touch of genius’ who made millions

But can smaller industrial towns like Scunthorpe follow its example?

A forceful challenger of union power at British Leyland

London remains pre-eminent European tech hub, but Paris, Berlin and others are also growing

Government emphasis on high growth enterprises has intensified, but results are mixed

Founded in 1856, the company is the survivor of British horology, having absorbed several rivals

From heritage to healthcare, via regenerating the city centre, local business is ‘recognising its strengths’

Eye-catching locations around the city exemplify its modern ambition

The city exports more goods and services per job than any other in Britain

Arthur J. Bressan’s re-released film has charm and poignancy

The actor plays a detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this 1950s-set film

This hospital saga is gripping, well acted and sometimes harrowing

The doctor at the heart of this film shows dauntless compassion

Wang Xiaoshuai’s wonderfully acted film is an epic of love and loss

An autobiographical movie that strips bare the actor’s early years

Alex Gibney’s film portrays its subject as all but flawless. Can that be right?

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about the Philippines’ former First Lady is comic as well as horrific

Drama and substance are peripheral in a movie that’s as lacking in humanity as you might expect

There’s swashbuckling and explosions, but Adam Driver is the real star of the ninth and final film in the Skywalker saga

Chinese film-maker Bi Gan’s movie slips into a beautiful, bewildering netherworld

Tom Hooper’s musical adaptation is weird, wonderful and worryingly erotic

In five decades, Nigel Andrews saw every movie and met all the stars. This is what he learnt

From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Spirited Away’, the FT’s outgoing film critic picks his top movies

Saoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts

The director’s satire on consumerist culture shines through in this sparkling new print

Fun though it may be, this collection of out-takes is never quite the sum of its parts

FT film critic Nigel Andrews selects his favourites, from the voluptuous crime-athon ‘The Irishman’ to the harrowing war documentary ‘For Sama’

Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical

The versatile Monty Python star who sided with the underdog

For a postwar movie generation Kirk Douglas was the definition of ‘macho’

Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen

The brilliance of the director’s early work reflects western cinema’s genius for refashioning primal stories and pulp fiction

Master of high miserabilism who starred in ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Seventh Seal’

War films 1917 and the upcoming Painted Bird are the latest entries in a sub-genre driven by relentless adversity and survival

Flexibility and lower fees appeal — but not all providers are competing on price

Ease of access and (sometimes) greater affordability are attracting a broader demographic

Would-be students need to consider the trade-off between flexibility and networking

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow

Find out which schools are offering distance-learning post-graduate business degrees

Online courses grow while future of campus-based qualifications is questioned

There is a limited pool of candidates to fill what has become a complex leadership role